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Calderon lashes US after drug-war casino blaze kills 52

Calderon lashes US after drug-war casino blaze kills 52

President Calderon has demanded a crackdown on drugs in the US after cartel "terrorists" torched an upmarket casino in Mexico, killing 52 people.

Drug war dispute to dominate US-Mexico meeting

Mexican President Felipe Calderón will press President Barack Obama to crack down on US drug consumption when they meet on Thursday.

Cartel bloodbath on Mexican border claims 50 lives

Two headless corpses wrapped in blankets, five beaten and bound men asphyxiated in a car, and the mayor of a sizeable town riddled with bullets.

Bomb kills one, wounds two in Mexico City

A bomb exploded on a street near the security ministry in central Mexico City on Friday, killing one person and wounding two. No group claimed responsibility for the blast and…

Mudslide buries houses in flooded Mexico

A huge wall of mud and water engulfed a remote village in flood-ravaged southern Mexico on Monday and the government said at least 16 people were missing. Mexican media reported…

Mexico floods recede as thousands more evacuated

Thousands more people were plucked from rooftops in southern Mexico on Sunday even as floods that have left 800 000 people homeless in Tabasco state began to recede, authorities…

One million people affected by Mexico floods

Rescuers worked on Friday on rescuing hundreds of thousands of people trapped by the worst floods ever recorded in Mexico’s southern state of Tabasco, with more than one million…

Tens of thousands trapped in Mexico floods

Tens of thousands of Mexicans were trapped on rooftops and others clung to lampposts on Thursday after heavy rains flooded nearly the entire southern state of Tabasco. At least…